Awardee OrganizationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RES
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Abstract Text
The purpose of this grant application is to increase the understanding,
detection, and recovery of human ocular motor and related visual
disorders. Experiments will determine the affect of posterior brain
injury or transcranial magnetic stimulation on the detection and
discrimination of hemifield motion. Studies of the recovery of these
visual processes after injury are proposed.
The ability to encode spatially-accurate saccades after frontoparietal
brain lesions is examined. Disruption of a corollary discharge involving
the frontal eye fields may disrupt the spatial accuracy of saccades in
the double-step paradigm. Extraretinal signals from smooth pursuit may
provide ineffective information for spatially-accurate saccades during
pursuit. Injury to the smooth pursuit system may also injure the ability
to disengage fixation and initiate visually-guided saccades.
Posterior parietal lesions produce unidirectional deficits in smooth
pursuit that have not been explained by a loss of unidirectional pursuit
neurons or neurons involved in motion vision processing. The possibility
that these unidirectional asymmetries in smooth pursuit velocity are
caused by unidirectional asymmetries in the discrimination of retinal
slip velocity errors is tested.
A reliable clinical method that selectively tests frontal and posterior
saccade or smooth pursuit pathways would be valuable. Studies of the
affect of regional transcranial magnetic stimulation on saccades and
smooth pursuit responses may lead to such an important new clinical and
investigative method.
All of these studies are unified by the premise that understanding how
the visuomotor brain normally responds to injury may lead to logical
approaches for facilitating its repair.
Public Health Relevance Statement
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Project Terms
eye movement disordershuman subjectmagnetic fieldneural information processingoculomotor nucleiparietal lobe /cortexsaccadessmooth pursuit eye movementstrokevision testsvisual fixationvisual tracking
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